According to a team of researchers at the University of California, Davis, only a very small percentage of Neanderthal DNA is present in the genomes of...
A large genome-wide association study of more than 560,000 people has identified 10 new genetic regions associated with the number of children we have...
A new animal study published in the journal Cell Reports shows vitamin D engages longevity genes to increase lifespan and prevent the accumulation of toxic...
A team of scientists from the University of Chicago and the University of California, San Diego, has found that migraine sufferers harbor significantly...
The genetic cause of a syndrome characterized by multiple frustrating and difficult-to-treat symptoms, including dizziness and lightheadedness, skin flushing...
Biologists at Vanderbilt University have discovered DNA of the black widow spider toxin in the genome of a virus that attacks Wolbachia, a type of symbiotic...
Twenty-three new genes involved in risk for autoimmune vitiligo have been identified by an international group of scientists led by the University of Colorado...
Pie charts show the proportion of chromosomes within different populations worldwide that carry a non-working copy of the FLG gene, a primary risk factor...
An international team of researchers from the United States and Germany today reports having sequenced and annotated the genome of the Philippine tarsier....
A group of researchers in the United Kingdom has identified a set of gene families whose sizes are positively associated with an expanded neocortex —...
A team of researchers at Linköping University in Sweden has identified two genomic regions and five candidate genes associated with dog’s human-directed...
An international team of scientists has found a new link between the diversity of bacteria in the human fecal microbiome and levels of visceral fat (body...
According to a new study published today in the journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Genetics, smoking leaves historical ‘footprint’ on the human genome...
The first major study of visual pigment genes and lenses in snakes has found that the reptiles match their vision to their lifestyles.
The Montpellier...
Giraffes actually are not one species, but four, according to a new study published in the journal Current Biology.
Reticulated giraffe (G. reticulata)...
An international group of researchers has discovered that two regions in the genomes of Tasmanian devils (Sarcophilus harrisii) are changing in response...
According to an international team of researchers from Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, people with a variation in a particular gene tend...
In an animal study, an international team of researchers led by Medical Research Council (MRC) Harwell Institute scientist Dr. Steve Brown has uncovered...
For the first time, scientists have sequenced and analyzed the nuclear and mitochondrial DNA of the Cameroon scaly-tail (Zenkerella insignis), one of Africa’s...
